Monday we packed the camper and headed off on our camping holiday. We decided to take a route to our regular camping spot in the Snowy Mountains that we hadn’t taken before. We headed east, stopping in Traralgon for some lunch and so Andrew could buy a Lego kit that he couldn’t get anywhere else. After going through Bairnsdale we took the road north to Buchan and continued north to a campground on the Snowy River about 20 km past Suggan Buggan. The road was quite twisty a lot of the way, but around Suggan Buggan the road was rough as well as twisty, and Nathan succumbed to car sickness and we had some vomiting on a couple of occasions.

We finally made the campground quite late in the day and found a spot that we liked. It was a little removed from most of the other campsites and we were a bit further away from the river (Snowy River), but it was nice and quiet. We had a picnic table and a fire pit that we used for cooking dinner last night.

Nathan found a beetle that fascinated him and we took a photo of it. We identified it as a Honeybrown Beetle (Ecnolagria grandis). Then Toby also became fascinated with beetles and he found one that we couldn’t identify. He called it Buggy, and played with the poor thing for ages. He even took it to bed and put it under his pillow. Toby was very disappointed that we couldn’t take Buggy home. More bugs were found, but the first two were the best.

We stayed two nights at Willis. Our whole day was quite a hot one and we tried to have a picnic at the river but it was too hot as there was no shade by the water. We had to retire to the camper and went for a swim around 4:30 when the clouds had come over and the temperature was a lot lower. We all had a lot of fun in the water. The current was quite strong but it made for fun rides on the boogie board.

Our first stop, Traralgon.

Honeybrown Beetle

Buggy

View from the campsite

Kids playing in the water

Packed up and ready to leave this morning.

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